On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, KORN Andras wrote: > I think the postinst shouldn't just remove /var/state/apt if the apt.conf > file referenes it.
There is no legitimate reason for doing this, I consider it to be quite broken. > The preinst script should check whether there are references to the > /var/state/apt directory, and, if so, leave the symlink it creates in place. That turns out to be considerably difficult, I think we actually decided it might be impossible to do 100% correctly. Jason

